[Fontconfig] font preferences

[Sairus Patel]

My understanding is that if the FontConfig config files don't provide mappings for "sans-serif" and friends on a particular system, you're out of luck as far as FontConfig APIs go.

Furthermore, there are no official keywords for such generic family names: it all depends on what keywords are used in that system's config files. That said, the default configs that come with FontConfig use a specific set of keywords and it probably wouldn't be wise to use different ones when setting up the system.

Sairus


-----Original Message-----
From: fontconfig-bounces+sppatel=adobe.com at lists.freedesktop.org [mailto:fontconfig-bounces+sppatel=adobe.com at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Aekold Helbrass
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 4:15 AM
To: fontconfig at lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: [Fontconfig] font preferences

Hi All!

I have possibly lame question, but I still need answer...

On my system I have aliases and list of font preferences, so using
family "sans-serif" and "monospace" works great. But are there systems
without those aliases and if there are - how can I get preferred sans
or monospaced font from fontconfig?

Thanx!
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